Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

- Bristol, Claude M.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce